Les Tokar

is a technology nut and Founder of The SSD Review. His early work includes the first consumer SSD review along with MS Vista, Win 7 and SSD Optimization Guides. Les is fortunate to, not only evaluate and provide opinion on consumer and enterprise solid state storage but also, travel the world in search of new technologies and great friendships. Google+

Thunderbolt 3 has been around for some time now and, as bumpy of a start as it initially seemed to have had, it seems to be fitting quite well in today’s world of anything media. With 40Gbps bi-directional travel that for some odd reason is limited to 2.8GB/s throughput, there are just so many other things that come along with …

Every now and then at The SSD Review, we like to throw things in that we find useful, although they may not be directly ‘flash storage’ related. Personally, I am a storage speed junkie so anything I can get my hands on that accomplishes that is good to go. This is a bit different though. It is the Plugable USB-C …

Without a doubt, one of the best parts of being a part of the flash industry over the past 12 years has to be the opportunities this technology has provided. So much of what we take for granted is solely the result of flash technology and it is mind-blowing how we fail to even recognize its existence in so much …

If you have been following us for awhile, you might remember our review of the Apricorn Aegis Secure Key 3 flash drive that we did back in August of 2016. Back then, any flash drive at 480GB was something to get your hands on, much less one that would also qualify as one of the most secure flash drives worldwide. …

Teton Glacier. We can probably all agree that this is one of the coolest product code names to date. This code name applies to the subject of our report today which is the 512GB version of the Intel Optane Memory H10 with Solid State Storage. To look at, this SSD is unique in that, although its mechanism of operation is …

So we have been on a bit of a roll with Lexar products for the last week or so, and that is a good thing. For those not familiar with Lexar, they had a very strong presence in the media storage world, originally a Micron company but sold to Longsys of China back in August of 2017. This of course …

A few days back, we did a review on the first 1TB microSD card to make it outside of manufacturers test facilities and the only negative of that review was that we couldn’t tell you when it would be available, or the cost. That was the Lexar 1TB High-Professional microSDXC which is the smallest 1TB storage drive in the industry …

Great relationships can lead to great things. In the past few months, there have been a few companies who have stated their intention to market the holy grail of portable storage; a 1TB microSDXC card. So far though… nada. Well…at least until earlier today when a totally unexpected package arrived via courier. It was a small package…very small in fact. …

So we have been used to seeing 1TB and larger external drives for some time now, and typically they will be somewhat compact in size and have a cable which plugs into the storage device and PC. It is not common to see flash drives reaching that 1TB capacity and, in fact, I think we have only ever tackled one …

Since the beginning of time… ok maybe not that long ago but since SSDs were introduced to the consumer, we all knew that a time would come where SATA just might near extinction. Long story short for those who aren’t sure of what we are talking about… SATA is a protocol which was originally created for magnetic hard drives and …